Category
page 1Mythographers
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist

Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
Snorri Sturluson
Icelandic historian, poet and politician (AD 1179–1241)
Mircea Eliade
Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago (1907–1986)

James George Frazer
Scottish social anthropologist (1854–1941)
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
Erich von Däniken
Swiss pseudoscientific writer and ufologist (1935–2026)

René Girard
French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science

Jane Ellen Harrison
British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (1850–1928)

Gustav Schwab
German teacher, pastor, author and editor (1792–1850)
Immanuel Velikovsky
Russian, Israeli and American author (1895–1979)
Karl Otfried Müller
German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)
Bahram Beyzai
Iranian film director (1938-2025)
Edith Hamilton
American teacher and writer (1867–1963)
Károly Kerényi
Hungarian classical philologist (1897-1973)
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Swiss-born ufologist and TV presenter
Vicente Ferreira da Silva
Brazilian logician, mathematician, and philosopher
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
late 5th/early 6th century Latin author
Fyodor Buslaev
Russian philologist and art historian (1818–1897)
Thomas Bulfinch
American writer and mythologist (1796-1867)
Jan de Vries
Dutch linguist (1890-1964)
Marina Warner
writer and mythographer
Devdutt Pattanaik
Indian physician; leadership consultant, mythologist and author
Walter Friedrich Otto
German classical philologist (1874-1958)
Lewis Spence
British academic (1874-1955)

August von Haxthausen
German agriculturalist, economist, lawyer, and folk song collector (1792–1866)
Just Mathias Thiele
Danish art historian (1795–1874)
Yeleazar Meletinsky
Russian academic (1918-2005)
Thomas Keightley
Irish writer on mythology and folklore (1789-1872)
Natalis Comes
Italian mythographer (1520–1582)
Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn
Dutch scholar (1881–1962)
Andrei Oișteanu
Romanian academic

Furio Jesi
Italian historian and archaeologist (1941–1980)
Antoine Banier
French historian
William Irwin Thompson
American poet and social critic (1938–2020)
Jaan Puhvel
American-Estonian linguist (born 1932)
Norbert-Bertrand Barbe
French painter
Ella Young
Irish-American writer
Thomas Blackwell
Scottish classical scholar and historian (1701-1757)
Fyodor Braun
German academic (1862-1942)
José Manuel Losada
Spanish literary critic
Donald Alexander Mackenzie
British journalist and folklorist (1873–1936)

Jacob Bryant
British writer
Alan F. Alford
writer (1961–2011)
Vincenzo Cartari
mythographer (1531–1569)
Marie Petersen
German writer (1816–1859)
Jean Seznec
French historian and mythographer (1905-1983)
Claude Calame
Swiss mythographer
Daniel Clasen
German academic
Linda Fierz-David
Swiss philologist (1891-1955)
Barbara G. Walker
American writer and knitting specialist
Otto Gruppe
mythographer (1851–1921)
Vatican Mythographers
anonymous authors of three Latin mythographical texts

Georges Charachidzé
French historian (1930-2010)
Kamla K. Kapur
indian-American playwright and poet
Samhita Arni
Indian Writer, columnist
Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică
Romanian writer and businessman (1892-?)

Jonathan Young
American psychologist
Anton Gerard van Hamel
Dutch linguist (1886-1945)